Everywhere has its forgotten places. These pictures Document Caldwell Estate, the former home of the Mure of Caldwell. The land and house is now under private ownership and the wider estate is used for pheasant shooting so it isn't an area to roam about the woods.

Actually in East Ayrshire but only a few miles west of Neilston. Dunlop house was built in 1833 by John Dunlop. Listed in 1971 as a category A building by Historic Scotland. Today it stands empty awaiting development. All these pictures were taken in September 2006.

In August 2011, George Square and a few surrounding streets were transformed into the streets of Philadelphia whilst filming for the new Brad Pitt film, World War Z took place. Apparently, for tax reasons they decided not to film it in Philadelphia PA. With its grid system and architecture Glasgow does a pretty good impersonation, although I'm sure people who live in Philidelphia might think otherwise.

Photos taken during the construction of the Queensferry Crossing Bridge. Built to replace the 50 year old Forth Road Bridge and at the time of its construction one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Scotland for a generation. Construction started in 2011 and the bridge opened in 2017.

Scottish Borders RegionThe southern most part of Scotland is divided fairly equally between Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders Region. Scottish borders takes in the right hand side and covers most of the actual border with England.

Scotland's west coast has always had a strategic importance as a place for anchoring naval vessels from WWII up until the cold war and even today is the location of the UK's Trident Missile Submarines and the main training area for its attack Submarine fleet.

Scotland has in the past built many of the Royal Navy's great warships but today there are only two yards remaining, the former Yarrows Shipbuilders at Scotstoun and Govan Shipbuilders, both today are owned by BAe Systems.

The Royal Observer Core was established in 1925 to identify hostile aircraft. In the 1950's they were given the additional task of monitoring a nuclear attack on the UK for which some 1500 underground concrete bunkers were built in every corner of the UK. The ROC was stood down in 1991 but many of the monitoring post can still be spotted. For more info check out Sub Brit's web site

This Album contains a selection of very short 8mm Colour Cine film clips made by my late Father in the 1950's and 60's. Please note that the embedded player does not start playing until the complete file has been downloaded. Within the description there is a link that will start a stand alone player which will buffer the file and play with less delay.

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